With more than a hundred million subscribers in the USA, T-Mobile USA
— the largest subsidiary of the German company Deutsche Telekom —
collects more personal information about more people in the USA than
any other U.S. subsidiary of a parent corporation based in the
European Union. T-Mobile USA is thus the single most important test of
the applicability to EU-based companies’ U.S. subsidiaries of European
data protection rules and the privacy and data protection promises
made by European multinational companies on behalf of their worldwide subsidiaries.
This matters because European laws and the stated policies of European companies like Deutsche Telekom typically claim to provide much better
privacy protection than U.S. laws. People in the U.S. like me who care
about privacy often chose to give our business to European companies,
which often operate in the U.S. through subsidiary corporations they
control, in order to obtain greater protection for our personal
information than if we dealt with U.S.-based companies. But do these
European companies practice what they preach?
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002653.html
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